Experience Management

Techcrunch reported that Zend and Adobe have partnered to provide an integrated environment for developing rich web experiences Adobe Flash Builder 4.5.  I, for one, remember a previous attempt that didn’t go so swell, but am fairly certain that they have ironed out most of the previous wrinkles.  This is great since Adobe is a […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]

So I’ve seen a significant uptick in Adobe tools being used in portal and collaboration projects as well as Adobe being considered as a platform.  That’s no surprise given what they have acquired and what they’ve been investing in R&D. Whether it be Day Software for web content management, Omniture for web analytics, or continuing […]

I just went through a presentation on Adobe CQ5, which came to Adobe via their recent acquisition of Day Software.  Wow!  CQ5 has outstanding features that compete with the best Enterprise Web Content Management and Portal systems.  At the heart of CQ5 is Apache Sling and a Java Content Repository (JCR).  Main features of CQ5 […]

So cloud has different meanings for different people. Not surprisingly, consumers have a different perspective than IT. What is driving the cloud?  It’s all coming out of web 2.0.  Web 2.o continues to improve and mature.  Technology like REST and Ajax help it.  The user or community based paradigms get better. Portal and the Cloud […]